and remember, this time--and 99% of the time--it is the phone lines, nothing you can do about it, because Mr. Linux Guru doesn't know how to use simple tools like ping and traceroute.
Because 99% of the time the problem is the user.
And the other 99% of the time it *is* Windows.
For every day we have a hardware failure our our upstream provider screws up their DNS, there are 363 that the problem is not with the ISP (your mileage may vary with larger ISPs)
you are completely dependent on your upstream provider for all routing. That's the way it is. The only way to change it is to have multiple providers. But then, how do you determine which one is autoritative if they conflict?
But you got to admit that the "new employee".NET ad is effective (and entertaining.)
A older guy is showing around new employee around. He says something like "I remember when we had to do all this by hand, it took blah people x time to..." The new employee says "How long have you been here?" and he says "A couple months." And then it says Microsoft.NET logo -- better than cheese or something.
Of course that's the beauty of advertizing. You could sustitute another product name and it would be just as effective. There is no direct tie-in to the product. Only proximity.
I'll grant you, that.NET may save you time compared to doing it manuall. It does promise rapid development. But so could J2EE, or some other technology.
Compare that with the IBM ad. Until this Unisys tie-in actually occurs, Microsoft cannot claim to save space/time/money on server consolidation. And still, there will always be the implied (factual) statement that free software will save you money compared to per-client licenses.
Um... they wouldn't threaten the servers. They'd ask to see the licenses for all the PCs in the marketing department. People would be scurring around, rummaging through filing cabinets with worried looks on their faces, and while the stack of licenses piles up (and up) the goons would say "We can just forget about this whole thing if you upgrade your servers to Microsoft" and then it'd pan out to show everyone looking for their licenses and the boss looking at his watch noticing no work is getting done and then a look of resignation would cross his face. Moments later the goons would get into their cop cars and tanks and drive to the nearest donut shop, because they're the government.
that's not true. They rode the coattails with a dagger. They signed on with Compaq, who effectively broke IBM's monopoly (nothing wrong there) but then killed OS/2 in a way most Machivellian
you're right that a bad password can be guessed. But:
a) you could assign your user a good password (just like you assign them a card)
b) chances are that the card codes are *not* random -- or even very secure. They probably contain an ID number which may contain your social security number, or worse, be sequestial.
Shoulder surfing is eliminated, but it is easier to "borrow" a card than steal a password.
How is it harder to brute force a card? All the card contains is a number. It may be longer than 8 bytes, but passwords can be just as long. A physical card reader may be necessary to read the card, but not to submit the number on it. In the end, it is software that verifies the card. There is a casual deterrent, but only similar to your browser preventing data entry with a MAXLENGTH attribute. You can bypass the browser with "TELNET host.com 80"
I realize that there may be physical impracticalities for doing the same with the card, but that has nothing to do with "what you have" authentication.
A card is nothing more than a post it note with a password and secret decoder ring that can be read mechanically.
So they spend thirty seconds learning which button to click. Your employees time is better spent learning proper resource management than watching movies on company time anyway.
And the discussion was about ISP users, not companies, which, by the way, already have size limits. If you're using POP3, it makes a whole lot of sense to cut out as many extra copies as you can. That's why MX was invented.
If one user is sending a 5 MB file to another, the likelihood is that the first user downloaded it from somewhere else (like a movie trailer), and can just send a link; or that it may be sent to multiple users, in which case it should be put on a shared drive, NFS, or some other networked partition, in which case, again, you can send a link.
Integrating FTP or some P2P file transfer mechanism into an email client might be a nice touch and would definitely cut down on the wasted bandwidth of multiple copying, but introduces more potential security risks than benefits.
I've looked at some
articles from a
couple of years ago about
about the 32 way Unisys servers, but had pretty much given up on the idea of Microsoft datacenter as a myth, even though my friends on the "inside" have been saying it was going to appear anytime soon now for awhile (since Win2k was in beta)
My question is, are these really 32 processor machines running Windows or just multiple 4 way systems in the same box. Even the Unisys site isn't very clear.
While we need case studies to show the actual savings that can be achieved through the deployment of InsightConnector, it's hard not to start counting additional money in the bank. For starters, the Connector fee schedule goes from $39 for a single user, down to $25 per seat for 100 users, with negotiable volume discounts for larger organizations. By contrast, Microsoft charges $92 per client licensed Exchange seat, so that a firm with 100 seats will experience a gross savings of $6,700, or 72 percent, right off the bat.
just cut and paste this macro into your favorite terminal emulator and send the message. Pine will parse the macro, convert it into code that sendmail uses to manage the message, and viola, you can have your meeting:
Let's do lunch at 1:00 tomorrow. If you can make it, let me know. If you think you'll forget, run a cron job to make something pop up on your screen every couple of minutes, that's high tech, eh?
-aaron
ps. Ignore those couple of lines of gibberish at the top, they're just there to make someone who thinks there something fancy about hitting a button labeled "Accept" instead of "Reply". We've already discussed the idea of pop-ups. Haha!
If you want a box with Linux pre-installed, support a Linux OEM (not Dell or Compaq or Pricewatch.) If you want support buy it from Redhat or SuSE. Don't download and burn and complain.
And try Linux again. Installs are a lot prettier than they were 3 years ago.
NEW YORK - Rick Carey has staked his reputation and his job on a project that he concedes is risky--but with potentially huge returns. He is the person in charge of a top-down implementation of Linux software at Merrill Lynch.
Credit Suisse First Boston, which has been working with Linux since late 2000, has replaced some of its Unix technology.
I hope the whole PGP fiasco convinces people why closed source is bad.
I don't think anyone would question Phil Zimmerman's goodness and sincerity, but who ever thought back in the days that PGP would be bought out, backdoored, forced into an ugly business like McAffee, and closed down at the behest of the corporations and government the minute an excuse is provided?
I prefer war straight up with 1 deck of playing cards -- either shuffled and played blind till one person has all the cards, or full visible strategy once through the deck.
a better example is asking an author to change his plot. Because D&D was in part Gary Gygax's story. Or an outline of it. In his "story", if a magician wore armor it prevented him from casting spells. Similarly, in Bram Stoker's story, a vampire was repelled by garlic. How do you think he would feel if you requested that maybe Dracula didn't like onions or parsnips instead?
And besides, he put a lot of effort into the game. I think its okay to get a little bit irrational defending something you've created.
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and remember, this time--and 99% of the time--it is the phone lines, nothing you can do about it, because Mr. Linux Guru doesn't know how to use simple tools like ping and traceroute.
Because 99% of the time the problem is the user.
And the other 99% of the time it *is* Windows.
For every day we have a hardware failure our our upstream provider screws up their DNS, there are 363 that the problem is not with the ISP (your mileage may vary with larger ISPs)
you are completely dependent on your upstream provider for all routing. That's the way it is. The only way to change it is to have multiple providers. But then, how do you determine which one is autoritative if they conflict?
scp /etc/hosts root@new-a-root:/etc/hosts
I don't think moms "get laid" as a birthday present. Sexual drive is usually the other way around
someone else has just discovered how to let light in. It is not know yet if their product's name will be contested by Microsoft Corp.
But you got to admit that the "new employee" .NET ad is effective (and entertaining.)
.NET logo -- better than cheese or something.
.NET may save you time compared to doing it manuall. It does promise rapid development. But so could J2EE, or some other technology.
A older guy is showing around new employee around. He says something like "I remember when we had to do all this by hand, it took blah people x time to..." The new employee says "How long have you been here?" and he says "A couple months." And then it says Microsoft
Of course that's the beauty of advertizing. You could sustitute another product name and it would be just as effective. There is no direct tie-in to the product. Only proximity.
I'll grant you, that
Compare that with the IBM ad. Until this Unisys tie-in actually occurs, Microsoft cannot claim to save space/time/money on server consolidation. And still, there will always be the implied (factual) statement that free software will save you money compared to per-client licenses.
Um... they wouldn't threaten the servers. They'd ask to see the licenses for all the PCs in the marketing department. People would be scurring around, rummaging through filing cabinets with worried looks on their faces, and while the stack of licenses piles up (and up) the goons would say "We can just forget about this whole thing if you upgrade your servers to Microsoft" and then it'd pan out to show everyone looking for their licenses and the boss looking at his watch noticing no work is getting done and then a look of resignation would cross his face. Moments later the goons would get into their cop cars and tanks and drive to the nearest donut shop, because they're the government.
that's not true. They rode the coattails with a dagger. They signed on with Compaq, who effectively broke IBM's monopoly (nothing wrong there) but then killed OS/2 in a way most Machivellian
you're right that a bad password can be guessed. But:
a) you could assign your user a good password (just like you assign them a card)
b) chances are that the card codes are *not* random -- or even very secure. They probably contain an ID number which may contain your social security number, or worse, be sequestial.
Shoulder surfing is eliminated, but it is easier to "borrow" a card than steal a password.
How is it harder to brute force a card? All the card contains is a number. It may be longer than 8 bytes, but passwords can be just as long. A physical card reader may be necessary to read the card, but not to submit the number on it. In the end, it is software that verifies the card. There is a casual deterrent, but only similar to your browser preventing data entry with a MAXLENGTH attribute. You can bypass the browser with "TELNET host.com 80"
I realize that there may be physical impracticalities for doing the same with the card, but that has nothing to do with "what you have" authentication.
A card is nothing more than a post it note with a password and secret decoder ring that can be read mechanically.
So they spend thirty seconds learning which button to click. Your employees time is better spent learning proper resource management than watching movies on company time anyway.
And the discussion was about ISP users, not companies, which, by the way, already have size limits. If you're using POP3, it makes a whole lot of sense to cut out as many extra copies as you can. That's why MX was invented.
If one user is sending a 5 MB file to another, the likelihood is that the first user downloaded it from somewhere else (like a movie trailer), and can just send a link; or that it may be sent to multiple users, in which case it should be put on a shared drive, NFS, or some other networked partition, in which case, again, you can send a link.
Integrating FTP or some P2P file transfer mechanism into an email client might be a nice touch and would definitely cut down on the wasted bandwidth of multiple copying, but introduces more potential security risks than benefits.
My question is, are these really 32 processor machines running Windows or just multiple 4 way systems in the same box. Even the Unisys site isn't very clear.
Thank you. I was looking for that.
More links:
The Bynari site:
http://www.bynari.net/
From Consulting Times:
http://consultingtimes.com/connector.html
While we need case studies to show the actual savings that can be achieved through the deployment of InsightConnector, it's hard not to start counting additional money in the bank. For starters, the Connector fee schedule goes from $39 for a single user, down to $25 per seat for 100 users, with negotiable volume discounts for larger organizations. By contrast, Microsoft charges $92 per client licensed Exchange seat, so that a firm with 100 seats will experience a gross savings of $6,700, or 72 percent, right off the bat.
There are a couple of things you're missing.
1) They're running IMAP, not just POP3 (though your system could probably handle 700 IMAP users easily)
2) They're using Insight from Bynari so that all their outlook clients can have their popups.
They may have antivirus software too, and that will really eat CPU and I/O.
I haven't read it, but if this is the same Winnebego that switched like a year ago, I believe its 150K over 5 years.
Set your mailbox limit to 4 megabytes. And put a link in your "message too big" folder that directs them to a tutorial on FTP.
Unless, of course, your service agreement states that you provide unlimited storage for every user.
You can support 700 users on a decent pentium 133. With DNS and dialup and basic web hosting. I know.
just cut and paste this macro into your favorite terminal emulator and send the message. Pine will parse the macro, convert it into code that sendmail uses to manage the message, and viola, you can have your meeting:
.create_email(%msg(rtrn_rcpt)
.schedul e_app(app1[], sendmail, 12)
Hey Bob,
Let's do lunch at 1:00 tomorrow. If you can make it, let me know. If you think you'll forget, run a cron job to make something pop up on your screen every couple of minutes, that's high tech, eh?
-aaron
ps. Ignore those couple of lines of gibberish at the top, they're just there to make someone who thinks there something fancy about hitting a button labeled "Accept" instead of "Reply". We've already discussed the idea of pop-ups. Haha!
All of that exists.
If you want a box with Linux pre-installed, support a Linux OEM (not Dell or Compaq or Pricewatch.) If you want support buy it from Redhat or SuSE. Don't download and burn and complain.
And try Linux again. Installs are a lot prettier than they were 3 years ago.
No, the "principal" is the money itself. In principle, at least.
NEW YORK - Rick Carey has staked his reputation and his job on a project that he concedes is risky--but with potentially huge returns. He is the person in charge of a top-down implementation of Linux software at Merrill Lynch.
Credit Suisse First Boston, which has been working with Linux since late 2000, has replaced some of its Unix technology.
can we get a +1, Ironic for the signature
I hope the whole PGP fiasco convinces people why closed source is bad.
I don't think anyone would question Phil Zimmerman's goodness and sincerity, but who ever thought back in the days that PGP would be bought out, backdoored, forced into an ugly business like McAffee, and closed down at the behest of the corporations and government the minute an excuse is provided?
It could happen to you.
I prefer war straight up with 1 deck of playing cards -- either shuffled and played blind till one person has all the cards, or full visible strategy once through the deck.
a better example is asking an author to change his plot. Because D&D was in part Gary Gygax's story. Or an outline of it. In his "story", if a magician wore armor it prevented him from casting spells. Similarly, in Bram Stoker's story, a vampire was repelled by garlic. How do you think he would feel if you requested that maybe Dracula didn't like onions or parsnips instead?
And besides, he put a lot of effort into the game. I think its okay to get a little bit irrational defending something you've created.
you mean "commercial end user applications", of course
and of course, by three year warranty, you mean 1 year on all hardware